PDF PAPER SIZE ON MAC

[Anonymous]

Admittedly, I'm new to my MAC.

But when I was on windows, I had this awesome program called PDF995. It was a printer emulator, that had many many options. I was able to print on about 40 different page sizes. Rotate, scale, layout... all of that stuff was easy to modify.

I haven't found that ability in OS-X 10.4.

We used this option to print entire sets to pdf, then collate drawings, and in general reduce our paper consumption. It was very easy to send drawings, full scale to clients, consultants, etc.

Any help, or advice would help.

P.S. Often I work at home, and am not connected to our office plotter, so I don't have the ability to print even "real" prints.

[TomWaltz]

PDF generation is built into the OS, so I'm not sure what it is exactly that you're looking for. Are you looking for print management software maybe?

I guess I've never thought about that since it came with our plotter.

[Anonymous]

I want to print a pdf from Archicad, not plotmaker, at whatever size, and layout I decide. Even if I don't have a physical printer that can print that. PDF995 let me do that; i.e. print 30"x42" landscape. Can OS-X do this? If it can, please assist me to do so.

[Brad Elliott]

In your Page Setup Dialog Box select paper size and manage custom sizes. You can then create any size that is not shown in the default sizes. You can leave the Format for box on Any Printer to have it as a default or select the printer first to set a special size for a specific printer.

[TomWaltz]

yeah, in your Print dialog, there should be a button for "Save as PDF". By default it reads the current sheet size for the paper, but you can resize ift for whatever you want.

[Stress Co_]

This is what I do for "final/progress" sets of drawings.

Print the set to PDF using Archicad's Publisher (Paper size is set by the layout). Be sure to "merge to one PDF file".

Then use Acrobat Reader to print sets, at whatever paper size is selected in "Page Setup". Acrobat has an option for selecting which pages you want to print .... so you can do partial sets.

I archive the PDF files for a record of the projects progression.

One thing... I just loaded Acrobat Reader 8 and it screwed up my print margins for 24 x 36 sheets. I'm too busy to mess with it just now so went back to 7. Anyone else have this problem?

[Rod Jurich]

Stress wrote:
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Print the set to PDF using Archicad's Publisher (Paper size is set by the layout). Be sure to "merge to one PDF file"./...

Marc, can you show me where to find "merge to one PDF file".
I've looked everywhere within AC11.
To create one PDF file I use PDF Lab.

[Stress Co_]

G'day Ron:

In Organizer-Publisher. Look under Format. Note: A Folder has to be selected.

[Rod Jurich]

Stress wrote:
/..Look under Format. Note: A Folder has to be selected.

Many thanks Marc.
I was only asked this a day or so back by a windose user and said it wasn't possible .
Now corrected you have helped more than just me. Cheers

[SeaGeoff]

To merge you need to have a folder. You cannot simply select a group of files.